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Incarceration vs. Imprisonment

Incarceration and Imprisonment Definitions

Incarceration

To put in a prison or jail.

Imprisonment

To put in or as if in prison; confine.

Incarceration

To shut in; confine.

Imprisonment

A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

Incarceration

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

Imprisonment

Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
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Incarceration

Strangulation, as in hernia.

Imprisonment

The state of being imprisoned;
He was held in captivity until he died
The imprisonment of captured soldiers
His ignominious incarceration in the local jail
He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon

Incarceration

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Imprisonment

The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

Incarceration

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

Incarceration

Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
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Incarceration

The state of being imprisoned;
He was held in captivity until he died
The imprisonment of captured soldiers
His ignominious incarceration in the local jail
He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon

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